GAP management status and regional indicators of threats to biodiversity

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-33

  Stoms, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; California; Ecological indicators; Gap analysis; Land use; Projected human population growth; Road density index; Zoning

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 0033978818     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008105026956     Document Type: Article

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